Louisiana Voice

“If I were to run, I’d run as a Republican. They’re the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they’d still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific.”

—Donald J. Trump, People Magazine, 1998.

“I won’t accept written answers from the whistleblower. They must testify in person.”

—Donald Trump.

“I’ve submitted my answers to Mueller in written form because I’m not testifying in person.”

—Donald Trump. [Yes, we know the outcome of the Mueller report and the impeachment, but the double standard here is worth mentioning. Besides, if he testified in person, he’d be under oath and lying under oath is still considered perjury.]

“People are dying who have never died before.”

—Donald Trump, March 18, 2020. [Gee, who knew?]

“This notion of injecting or ingesting any type of cleansing product into the body is irresponsible, and it’s dangerous. It’s a common method that people utilize when they want to kill themselves.”

–Dr. Van Gupta, a pulmonologist and global health policy expert, on Trump’s idea of injecting disinfectants into the body as a coronavirus cure.

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“If Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.”

–British writer Michael Stevenson. You may read his entire essay HERE. [With thanks to Earthmother for passing it along.]

Before the furor had died down over Donald Trump’s demented comments about injecting disinfectants and ultraviolet lights as a means of combating coronavirus [ideas he had to have been pulled from the lower recesses of his anatomy] it was already being predicted that he would attempt to WALK BACK the stupidest thing ever uttered by a leader of any description since Kool-Aid dispenser JIM JONES.

And yes, I’m fully aware that comparing him to Jim Jones will bring out the Trump devotees who will be frothing at the mouth and screaming “Unfair!” So, go ahead, take your best shot but I shall not back down because what the Golden Cheeto has done is no different than Jones who [perhaps unintentionally] gave us the terms “Kool-Aid drinker,” and “Drink the Kool-Aid.”

Suggesting that coronavirus sufferers might find relief by injecting light or disinfectant into their bodies is not only stupid, but irresponsible, dangerous and inexcusable.

And whoever sent out that email photo with the suggestion that he would deny ever saying such a thing wasn’t far off.

By Friday afternoon, Idiot-in-Chief and his White House lackeys were already into damage control.

“I was asking a question SARCASTICALLY to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” he told reporters at an Oval Office bill signing this afternoon.

Sure you were.

“I was asking a sarcastic — and a very sarcastic question — to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside,” Chump continued. “But it does kill it, and it would kill it on the hands and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporters.”

Sorry, Mr. Golden Hairpiece, I call B.S. YOU LIED.

But here’s the thing. Let’s just, for the sake of argument, say you were just being sarcastic. That begs one question: WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? [Sorry to shout, but damn! You are just so very stupid.]

Just in case you aren’t aware, we’re in the middle of a pandemic and people are dying. Dying, Mr. Frump, DYING! And you’re being sarcastic?!!!!?

Excuse my anger and indigence, Mr. T-Rump, but that was neither the time nor the place for “sarcasm.” Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and common sense—of which you constantly boast but seem to possess such a minute quantity—would know that.

Do us all a favor and just stop with the daily briefings. They don’t help the country and they certainly don’t help you.

On second thought, keep doing them. Biden won’t even have to campaign.

“So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light—and I think you said that hasn’t been checked because of the testing. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”

–Donald Trump, Thursday, speaking to Bill Bryan, who leads the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology division. [Yet more evidence, as though it was needed, that the man is certifiably bat guano crazy.]

“Take two shots of Windex, swallow a light bulb, and call me in the morning.”

–CNN’s Chris Cuomo’s reaction to Dr. Orange Cheeto’s suggestion.

“Allow me to say if this was anybody else, nobody would not think he was crazy. How in the name of all that is holy can anybody, much less 40% of the population, think this man should be the leader of anything? Trump’s supporters should get a bottle of bleach, or maybe Pine Sol, and inject it immediately.

–A reader’s incredulous reaction.

“My concern is that people will die. People will think this is a good idea. This is not willy-nilly, off-the-cuff, maybe-this-will-work advice. This is dangerous.”

— Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

“We’ve heard the president trying to practice medicine for several weeks now, but this is a new low that is outside the realms of common sense or plausibility.”

— Ryan Marino, a medical toxicologist and emergency physician at University Hospitals in Cleveland.

“Please don’t do this.

Respectfully, all toxicologists.”

–Tweet by ER pharmacist Bryan D. Hayes.

“Well, look I think we need to speak very clearly that there’s no circumstance in which you should take a disinfectant or inject a disinfectant for the treatment of anything, and certainly not for the treatment of coronavirus. There’s absolutely no circumstance in which that’s appropriate, and it can cause death and very adverse outcomes.”

–Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.

“No, you cannot inject UV light into your body to cure COVID19 — neither biology nor physics work that way.”

–Science writer David Robert Grimes, who holds a Ph.D. in medical ultraviolet radiation.

“We must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route). With all products, our disinfectant and hygiene products should only be used as intended and in line with usage guidelines. Please read the label and safety information.”

–Email to The Washington Post from the Reckitt Benckiser Group, the maker of Lysol and Dettol.

“There is an emergency department in America in the week that will probably get a bleach ingestion because of this. We know that because people are scared and vulnerable, and they’re not going to think it’s that dangerous because they can get it in their house.”

–Dr. Dara Kass, associate professor of emergency medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. [She left off stupid.]

It just seems to us that the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, formerly the executive commissioner of Texas Health and Human Services, would have a Louisiana state flag over her left shoulder instead of a Texas state flag in her photo on the LDH OFFICIAL WEB PAGE. Just sayin’…